Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

by Rebecca Burns (Author), June Dobbs Butts (Foreword)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $31.71

  During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city where the races lived peacefully. But racial hatred came to the forefront during a heated political campaign, and the city's newspapers fanned its flames with sensational reports alleging assaults on white women by black men. This title reveals a tragic chapter from Atlanta's past.